Void Dragons

Dutch GT day 2

2010-11-03T14:43:00.003+01:00

Well it took some time but here it is, I unfortunately don't have any pictures for day 2 as I forgot to take my camera out of my army case. for game 4 we had the updated loot counter mission.

I lost the roll of and we had 3 objectives, this was going to be a hard game for me he could claim 2 objectives right away with no contesting this would be difficult. he had 10 terminators with Lysander and 5 TH/SS terminators, 2 units in rhino's and some speeders.

he deployed the terminators in the centred flanked by the Rhino's and the speeders out of LoS. I only deployed one serpent behind terrain ready to claim my counter. As predicted we both got our objectives in our first turn. After that I made a effort to kill his left troops and claim that objective. This succeeded! in an effort to claim his last objectives I threw just about everything at it. afterwords this was a bad Idea since it cost me a lot of VP's which modified the result down 2 points but it was word the effort. But my fire prisms where scattering badly in this game and I couldn't clear the objective to claim it and I won 12-8 loosing a very large chunk of my army.

for game 5 we had another kill points mission I faced marines yet again but this was a very random list with a lot of everything but nothing overly scary. Table was bad and he got first turn building himself a nice fire base. So I spend my first turns moving flat out to get to him boosting to his left flank and totally annihilating everything over there. it was risky but it worked out. I took out a bunch of terminators and a tactical squad (yriel rocks) then assaulted the Terminaotrs to lock them and killed another but losing the unit ofer the following turn. On the other side he had managed to take down a serpent with the unit inside so it was now 1-3 to him but I then managed to kill off the rest of the terminators and his marshal guy. giving me the 3-3 edge. Now he got desparate and tried to kill of Yriel both in doing so he lost another small assault squad and unit of attack bikes. giving me the 5-3 lead. most of the punch was now taken out of his left flank so i mopped up killing the razorback and landraider that where still there and ended with a 7-3 win. giving me a solid 20-0 win.

So after 2 days of gaming I ended up 15th in battle points which wasn't that bad for a first try, I lost out big on painting and the quiz so I dropped to 27th overall but still a great result for the first GT.

hope you enjoyed this short recap of my first trip to the GT I'm definitely going there next year :)

bloody mess

2010-11-02T23:04:00.003+01:00

Hey guys I've been running around some ideas in my head of what to do after the Eldar since they have been my main and only army for close to 2 years now so I toughed it might be time for a change.

Enter the blood angels still a speedy army with nice aesthetics, so I was going through the codex and talking to a Sm playing friend I discovered that the droppod Dreads can be very nice to get some nice distraction units in your opponents face so when going with droppods 3 is always better then 2 I made my distraction elements:

meat meat grinder 1& 2: these guys are 2 Death company Dreadnoughts with Heavy Flamer and Melta gun combine with blood talons with their droppod ride.

they can only ride into battle with their brethren to accompany them meat the meaty bunch: 10 Deathcompany, with a powerfist in it, in a droppod.

They are a major distraction for any army so when the dust finally settels they are no facing the angels of redemption! these are led by brother lothar: This is my Blood Angel captain with his powerweapon and Jumppack. He leads 3 units of assault marines into battle , dropping from the skies as angels of redemption on their path to glory. 2 of these 10 man units carry Melta weaponry and a sergeant with a forceful hand of righteousness, and one unit of 10 marines with cleansing flames and another forcefull sergeant.

So for you guys that don't like to read stories here is the short run down of the list:

Captain with Jumppack ,Powerweapon,Meltabomb
1 x 10 marines with 2 Flamers and Powerfist
2 x 10 marines with 2 Melta and Powerfist
2 x Death Company Dreadnoughts with Heavy Flamer, melta gun, Bloodtalons,Droppod
1 x 10 DC with Powerfist , Droppod
1700 pt.s

Dutch GT day 1

2010-10-26T10:04:00.006+02:00

Hey there bloggers,

the Dutch GT is over and man was it a great weekend. had great games and as a first timer I was very pleased with my 27th overall placing. Barely having finished my army to a legal standard I still took 18 out of a possible 30 painting points. I scored full at WYSIWYG and the Army list so I had a nice bundle of 38 points out of 50 going into the tournament.

So arriving at the event I was greeted by a lot of familiar faces, most of the people I normally face in smaller tournaments showed up so att least we would have no trouble getting some drinks in with some great people.

I got table 13 and was facing tau for game 1, kill points Pitched battle. The table was decent and provided me with some nice firing positions. He lined up most of his army on my left and center only placing 1 commander and hammerhead on my right.

The Eldar swing wing was in full effect! I charged up the right side of the board after coming out of reserves netting my first kill point with the fire prism who saw the tau commander and shield drone hitting them both and him failing his coversave he was killed. After that he manages to take down a fire Prism and a wave serpent the crew made it out and spend the rest of the game hiding (only 2 models had survived the explosion). He also killed another transport. After that Yriel went to town with the fire dragons. I had managed to kill his kroot one of the hammerheads and a develfish in turn 5. I was leading 4-3 and we rolled a 1 giving me a minor victory for my first game.

(14-6)

Game 2 against Eldar Kill points pitched battle burn and slash rules

here we had another beautiful table which thanks to the mission rules had a lot of LoS blocking terrain (roll d6 for every piece on a 4-6 it's dangerous terrain, also akll terrain issmoking blocking any LoS drawn over the terrain). He choose to go first and placed most of his models, I reserved some models (Big Mistake) and over the next turns I only managed to immobilize a fire prism. where he deepstrikes in with his unit of warpspiders, he scatters, and only just manages to stay on the table (how convenient). and they procied to kill a fire prism. I jump on the with Yriel and the Fire Dragons but they only kill 5 and are no in the open.
he then comes up and blade storms my fire dragons and yriel. Yriel makes it and charges the Dire Avengers and kills them outright. in that same turn the Dire Avengers serpent who is still holding his Yriel gets wrecked by my now immobilized yriel serpent and yriel has to get out and faces 5 of my fire dragons. He fails his invulnerable saves and is killed.
My Yriel get's killed by the brightlance of one of his fire dragon serpents and I loose another transport. (those crew just flee into terrain and stay there :).
in the left of the board a fire Prism and 2 of my transports (FD and DA) duke it out with his bigger unit of FD's and their serpent and his HF falcon with DA. I manage to take down the FD's and their serpent but the flacon get's away. By now we are about tide in kill points (warpspiders are killed of by the transports) him leading by one. I try to kill of his fire dragons for the tie but fail to kill them

a minor loss(6-14)

Best painted, by now we have had the best painted nominees and they are displaying there armies for our votes. nominated are:

Chaos Deamons

Tzeentch CSM

SM(adeptus mechanicus)

Salamanders

and Eldar

most armies are pretty good but I know the chaos deamons aren't painted by the owner of the army. The Salamander army is well painted but the conversions are stock conversion kits. The Mechanicus army is great but the paintjob isn't that amazing. The eldar army is pretty stunnign but their are to much washes without higlights drowning a lot of details. So I voted for the Tzeentch army who ahs great conversion/theme and painting.

Time for Game 3! facing CSM marines in a nightfight mission Capture and controll. The table was decent he chose the table Edge he was standing on and placed his objective in my left corner. I then placed mine back on my right he now has to choose go for mine or defend his own. if he does both I got him he decides to go for mine in full force placing his landraider vindicator and rhino with SCM near my objective to try and get a foot hold. He moves up the CSm in their rhino (they where his first deployment) and I blast their rhino of the board on my turn one with the fire Dragons.
I hop over to his objective while I plug the hole to mine with gravtanks. He spawns his grater deamon on the unit at my objective which is killed by my firedragosn plus Yriel. Who then proceed to get killed down to Yriel who in a feat of ultimate luck manages to kill off his beserkers and witthle the CSm squad down to 2 models before bitting teh dust.
over on his objective I pop his Rhino and the unit inside take 2 explosion wounds. I then kill another with another serpent turret. He then rolls boxcars for panic check and distance. He just lost his objective. he finally get's his Oblitorators to come in and drops them on his objective to try and stop me. he scatters and after only immoblizing my DA serpent they die to fire dragons. while the DA make a run for his objective.

So last turn only 2 CSM left on my Objective here I make the biggest mistake ever. I get out of the contesting serpent and balst the 2 CSm with the DA. they die! great but wait my DA aren't within the 3" dammit their goes my massecre. 16-4 for me.

So after the first day I have a comfortable 74 points out of a possible 110 not bad for a first day.

The galaxy has fallen!

2010-10-14T17:20:00.004+02:00

on my gravtanks, a short update today. Last night I got over to a friend of mine and was allowed to try my maiden airbrush skills on my gravtanks in a ditch effort to get to the GT with some colours.

Overview

Some tank close-ups

Short Displayboard Update

2010-10-03T21:35:00.005+02:00

Hey guys some more Pictures from the Display board. It's done for now until I get to the stage where i'm going to be painting the bases of my entire army. I think it came out pretty well (sorry for the crummy Pictures). all the sand will be painted a light brown in similar style to my Objective The sides and the pillars are going to stay white/bone coloured since they are supposed to look like wraithbone .

anyways enjoy (comments and complements are more then welcome =).

Damm what a lot of work

2010-09-28T16:50:00.006+02:00

Hey Bloggers,

After getting 2 tournaments done real life caught up with me. But I did have a lot of fun. We took 1th at the doubles tournament. with 3 great games, the Nightspinners really worked great in combination with the power of the blood Angels.

The Gt preparation event was a lot of fun to but the result wasn't that great ending second to last. I was outgunned by IG and lost 18-2 in a killpoint mission. Then I drawed against a Spacewolfs player, I got a 1 on a difficult terrain test which prevented me from contesting his objective for the win 10-10. The last game was a very close win but I lost to much of my army so I ended up with a 12-8 win giving me a total of 24 battlepoints out of a possible 60 not really the greatest result ever.

I did however have a day off school today and decided to finally get the bases of my Displayboard started. Some Pictures to show my progress so far :

So hopefully I can provide you guys with some more progress in the near future

Cheers

Sorry for the lack or reports

2010-09-07T01:22:00.006+02:00

Hey Bloggers,

sorry for the lack of battlereports of the battles played this Saturday my PC went Emo Blue on me Sunday so spend all day trying to get it working again.

But a short note on the battles we played a Lootcounter mission using the special claim rules and the terrain rules of the slash and burn mission (the GT Mission Rules). This mission was a really close game and actually saw me take the win (after the game was a draw for most of the time) with some great tankshocking and movement. 3-1 win Objectives But this was a game where we forgot a lot of special rules making this mission a bit weird.

The Deathwing

Eldar assault

The battle for the 3th Objective

So after a close win we decided to play a normal pitched battle annihilation mission. This was by far on of the worst games I've ever played every die was exactly the opposite from what I wanted. Lost 3 tanks turn two because I failed 3 cover saves at rolls of 3 when I needed 4 (the agony). The game just went south from there with the fire dragons getting stuck out in the oppen without transports and the fireprisms stunned or destroyed leaving me with little punch and a lost game at 7(or 8) to 2

Deployment

Eldar Swingwing

Getting hammerd!

Wrecks Everywhere

Detailed reports will be up as soon as I can! together with some pictures :) followed shortly by my reports on the Doubles tournament Coming up this Saturday!

Conversion Holofields

2010-09-04T19:32:00.006+02:00

Hello bloggers, after my 2 games today I noticed I could use holofields on my fire Prisms. So after discussing it with my friend and rampaging my bits box we came up with this conversion. It uses the Wave Serpent energy field generators on the turret to show my Holofield generators.

Fire Prism and Nightspinner

Fire Prism close-up

Nightspinner close-up

Preparing for a day of gaming!

2010-09-03T16:56:00.002+02:00

The gaming table set-up for tomorows games, my mate will bring some extra terrain pieces so we can have about 25% coverage (little under 25% at the moment). I will try to take some pictures and give you guys a battle report when possible:

The army in it's current state (the Dire avengers are headless since they are primed white and will be added after the models are done):

Some pictures of Yriel 2.0

2010-09-02T23:26:00.008+02:00

Hey bloggers small update I have some pictures of my minor Yriel Conversions. Just to remind you this is how the model normally hits the table:

Now this is my (yet to be painted) Yriel (Click on pictures for larger versions)

I Changed the Spear to the one from the High Elves Noble Kit

I chopped of the original base and replaced it with something
more fitting with the rest of the army. Also the flags are Dire Avenger flags
which can be removed for easier transport

I reworked the Right arm a little, I separated the Force Shield panels to get
a more dynamic look I think it makes the model a lot more detailed.

Well I hope you like it, I know it's not the most spectacular conversion but I think it works.

Gt Preparations

2010-08-28T04:39:00.005+02:00

Hello Bloggers,

Well with The GT not to far away I've compilled some last games in the weeks till the GT,

Upcoming ducosim doubles September 11th. This is mostly a fun tournament where I will be practising with Yriel and his squad of doom. Besides that just some random 40K

GoTW 1700 pts GT preparation tournament September 18th. This tournament is actually tailored to be a GT event trail. We will be playing the 3 non standeard mission from the GT to try out our armies and see how They hold up. This should be some good practise I know that 2 armies there will probably be Terminator based. So should be some tough competition.

Fanatic Leiden October 9th, This is a new tournament for me, Some cool missions. One where your 3 most expensive models are the objectives (only 1 vehicle), one old school VP mission and a 3 lootcounters mission. Should be some good practise with a lot of good players. Mission aren't the same as the GT but should still prove usefull practice I believe.

Then October 23-24th the main event! The Dutch GT.

So long way to go in a short time.

2010-08-24T00:55:00.004+02:00

Well I just got confermation regarding the GT rulespack that Yriel is allowed but the Nightspinners aren't. This means that instead of my 2 Nightspinners I'm probably going to be using 2 Fire Prisms, list will remain basically the same besides that swap. It should still be a viable list and most tournaments around here don't allow Nightspinners anyways so I guess this will make practicing like this easier.

Yriel 155

5 DA Waveserpent Spirit stones, tl scatterlaser, shurikan cannon pintle 195

5 DA Waveserpent Spirit stones, tl scatterlaser, shurikan cannon pintle 195

6 FD's Waveserpent Spirit stones, tl shurikan cannon 206

9 FD's Waveserpent Spirit stones, tl scatterlaser, shurikan cannon pintle 296

Fire Prism Spirit stones 125

Fire Prism Spirit stones 125

1698 pts.

Now It's time to get those fire Prism turrets magnetized!

GT practise games and Great Blogpost link!

2010-08-23T02:58:00.009+02:00

Hey there bloggers,

Today I played 2 practise games against a friends Deathwing Army to prepare ourselves for the upcoming Dutch GT. Since there would be 3 annihilation missions we decided to play that first game, for the second we would try the sun's red rays. This is a modified Dawn of war with capture and Controll mission. For both games I used the Yriel list my opponent used the following list (if I remember correctly):

Belail

with 5 man terminator squad with apothecary/chainfist, Powerweapon Sergeant, Lighting claw, Assault cannon, Stormbolter powerfist terminator.

another 5 man squad Chainfist, Powerweapon Sergeant, Lightning Claw, assault cannon, Stormbolter powerfist

another 5 man squad Chainfist, Powerweapon Sergeant, Lightning Claw, Cyclone Missle launcher, Stormbolter Powerfist

another 5 man squad Chainfist Heavy Flamer, Lightningclaw Sergeant, 2 Lighting Claws, thunder hammer StormShield

Landraider Crusader (holds the last mentioned unit)

2 vindicators

1 MM HF Landspeeder

The terrain was pretty wel covered 2 multistorie buildings. 1 beeing a Gorka Morka Fortress some trees and some random bits and pieces.

Game 1 saw me loose my 2 smaller FD squads (1 forced to fall back, other shot and assaulted) and 1 Wave Serpent to his 2 Vindicators and 2 units of terminators and landspeeder giving me an overal 5-3 Victory with roughly 480 VP differance in my advantage.

This game saaw me strugle to put Yriel and the FireBoys to good use since he was pretty much castled up next to the gorka morka fortress all game. In the end I think the apothecary saved about 5 or 6 Terminators from dying to the Nightspinners Dangerous terrain tests. However I did manage to immobilize his landraider with the spinners dangerours terrain check. I had put myNightspinner is the opposite corner and they where pretty much ignored once I had downed the landspeeder coming for them turn 1. After that we played the game I do a wound and He fails the sae but the apothecary ignores it. In the End I just managed to get out on top with Kill points but I have to say his army was a hard one for me to beat since he only had 9 KP to start with and all where rock hard. I on the other hand had a grand total of 15 KP's with some beeing bare boned 5 man Dire Avenger units.

This game showed me that fighting Terminators with melta guns is nice bit I really need to stop rolling about 3 or 4 hits on 8! bs 4 Melta guns!

Game 2 was a entirely different puppy.

I got first turn and deployed 1 serpent with DA to push back his deployment. He then deplys nothing and I Boost away on my first turn. He then deploys his entire army save for 1 terminator unit which is in reserve. He then Deepstrikes 2 units of Terminators very close to my objective which is locate behind some woods. his objective is guarded by annother Termi unit flanked by the Vindicators and Landraider. save for the objective termies his entire army guns it for my objective. My reserves come on everything butt 1 small FD squad. I loose the game right there. I play my Yriel unit to aggresiefly in an attempt to keep my objective clear. This fails with me rolling 4 1's to hit with the melta's and only killing 2 terminators. He then proseeds to uses his search lights to spot the unit and it is whiped out till only Yriel is left who is shot down the turn after that.

The rest of the game sees me trying to move to his objective only to be stopped in the last turn with me getting my faced punched in by the terminator units while I try to contest his objective and mine. In the end he takes me down to 2 Dire Avenger units and a Nightspinner everything else either wrecked or dead.

This game showed me that even though my fire power can be good when you don't have search lights and bad luck on the dice you can still have your butt kicked :)

Overall I'm pretty happy with the list I just need more practise and facing full terminator armies will still be a hard game for me too win but I guess that's the age of the coldex showing. While on that topic my German Eldar friend Karnstein just posted a great article on his blog which is deffinatly worth taking a look at

GT Rules pack online

2010-08-21T15:11:00.006+02:00

So yesterday the GT rules pack for the Dutch with the usual things off course. But also the misions that will be played. So let's have a look and see what it means for me gameplaywise:

DAY 1:
Round 1: YOU HAVE TO START SOMEWHERE
Let’s start things of with an easy one.
Mission: Annihilation (page 91 of the rulebook)
Deployment: Pitched battle (page 92 of the
rulebook)

Well easy enough standard annihilation mission. not my favourite mission in 40K to say the least. My army should perform reasonably well but I will have to be carefull and forcefull at the same time.

Round 2: SLASH AND BURN
You don’t always get to choose your battlefield,
and sometimes the battlefield is just as dangerous
as your enemy.
Mission: Annihilation (page 91 of the rulebook)
Deployment: Spearhead (page 93 of the rulebook)
Special rules:
Slash and burn: All pieces of area terrain are
either on fire or a smoking ruin. Before either side
deploys roll a D6 for each piece of area terrain
and refer to the following table:
1-3 Burning: The area counts as dangerous terrain.
4-6 Smoking: Add +1 to the cover save of any
unit in the terrain.
In addition, both burning and smoking terrain
blocks any line of sight that is drawn across and
beyond them.

Well surprise surprise another annihilation mission, however the terrain has some nice extra rules. the smoke ruins will give some nice places to hide units if need be. But most of all I love the LOS blocking, If the Nightspinners will be allowed they will rock in this mission since they can fire out of LoS. It will also narrow the boards terrain where units will go and hide since hiding in a burning ruin will be painful.

Round 3: THE SUN’S RED RAYS
Attacking in the middle of the night can give you
the edge you need in battle, just as long as your
enemy doesn’t know you are coming.
Mission: Capture and control (page 91 of the
rulebook)
Deployment: Dawn of war (page 93 of the
rulebook)
Special rules:
The suns red rays
The battle starts at night and the night fighting
rules from the Warhammer 40000 rulebook apply.
Roll a D6 at the end of each player’s turn. On a
roll of a 6 the sun rises and the night fighting
rules are no longer used. (this special rule supersedes
the night fighting mission special rule in the
dawn of war deployment rules)

Another mission that does not suit my army. Beeing shooting alpha strike orrientated Eldar army the nightfighting could potentially ruin my entire army while the new assault codexés will have a freaking field day. They can just run up on you unopposed. Especially the new space wolves with Searchlights on practically every vehicle and acute senses all around will not be to bothered by this at all. Guess it's time for that old trick, I stay on my base with 1 unit and gun everything over on yours when you get close.

DAY 2:
Round 4: IMPLACABLE ADVANCE
There are times when subtle tactics have to be
thrown overboard and the only way to claim victory
is to head to head with your enemy.
Mission: Seize ground (page 91 of the rulebook)
Deployment: Pitched battle (page 92 of the
rulebook)
Special rules:
Stubborn: All non-fearless units on both sides
are treated as having the stubborn universal special
rule when fighting this mission.
Objective secured: if either side has a scoring
unit within 3” of an uncontested objective at the
end of their turn, the objective the objective is
said to have been ‘secured’. A secured objective
counts as being controlled even if the unit that
secured it moves off.
The only way the objective can change hands is
for an enemy scoring unit to ‘secure’ it themselves
(just as described above)
Straight up the middle: Neither side may outflank
in this mission.

This mission will be a very strange one indeed. The capturing rules have been changed and now you can capture a objective without being on there. I can see some potential in this new rule with the Eldar speed just claim a unit and then keep it contested with a non scoring unit and see if something comes in to contest it Kill that and still keep it. All in all a intresting mission that will be a challange.

The question that has been going around is if you can still contest objectives or only claim them.

Round 5: THE END IS COMING!!!
All good things must end sometimes, let’s go out
with a bang!
Mission: Annihilation (page 91 of the rulebook)
Deployment: Pitched battle (page 92 of the
rulebook)

Well the third Annihilation mission in the tournament it's kind of lame the same mission twice and a slightly modified one.

overall I'm not to happy with the missions but I will just have to see how I can take an eldar victory home anyway!!

GT prep game

2010-08-19T12:16:00.004+02:00

Hey Bloggers,

I've just set a date with on of my warhammer buddies to play a GT prep game and see how are lists might perform. So this Sunday I'll be heading up there to face his Dark Angels Deathwing, some of you might all ready know his army he was the guy I played with in the last doubles tournament report.

his Blue Deathwing army

on a side note that doubles tournament is coming up soon as well this time I'm going to head over there with a blood angels player and we will be running These lists together

Eldar

Yriel
5 DA's, waveserpent (tl shurikancanon,shurikancanon,ss)
5 DA's, waveserpent (tl shurikancanon,shurikancanon,ss)
8 FD's, Exarch,DBF,Crackshot, waveserpent (tl shurikancanon,ss)
Nightspinner
Nightspinner

Blood Angels

Reclusiarch
2 priests Jumppack powerweapon
2 x 10 assault marines , Powerfist, 2 melta
8 Deatchcompany Powerfist, Droppod

The main plan is to drop the Deathcompany in the way as a distraction. There reroll to hit and wound thanks to the Reclusiarch will make them a real threat. Then use the spinner to tie up on flank and use all else agaisnt the other. With a lot of fast melta weapons and S shooting we should have some nice synergy going on. only thing I'm wondering if I should change is to take out Yriel for a farseer with RoW as I've seen plans for guys taking 2 Eldrads and the likes.

Your oppinion?

i've also got a hold off the email adress of the person responsible for the Dutch GT and have asked if the Nightspinners will be allowed at the event there. So hoping to get a word on that soon as well.

So a lot going on all in good fun

untill the next one

Path of the Warrior Review

2010-08-17T11:57:00.003+02:00

Ok going to give you a small review of another blogger on the book, I can't agree more with this review! the book is a great window in the Eldar world I've never seen before. The way the story evolves while linking into the bigger plotlines along the way was really a great read! Well hat's all I'm going to say on it because I don't want to spoil the book for you.

The only thing left to say or ask is why havent you picked it up yet!

Friday 2nd of July, 2010

Gav's Eldar guest blog

Black Library veteran author Gav Thorpe talks to us about getting into the eldar mindset.

How does one get into the mind of an eldar? Short of a bottle of absinthe or licking some of the more exotic species of frogs in the Amazon rainforest, the best I could do was take our everyday human experiences and turn the dial up to eleven. Imagine the greatest slight you have felt, the highest moment of achievement, the deepest times of grief and sadness; now imagine experiencing that for every second of your life, a life that can last more than a thousand years. There is no description in human psychology that could encompass such a tumult of emotion.

Add to this heightened emotional volatility a physical sensitivity and self-awareness that for us would be considered supernatural. Try to picture an existence in which you can feel the slightest current of air on your skin and hair, the subtlest nuance of taste, the infinitely small degrees of hue in the spectrum, the music in silence. The buzz of an insect is an orchestral work; starlight dappling on water is a rainbow of colours; the scent of a flower a melange of smells that each elicit the most powerful response.

But we are not done yet. Each of those exquisite phenomena, every tiniest experience, is imprinted upon your mind in stark clarity. Not for the eldar the comfort of pain dwindling with time, not the hazy, comfortable recollection of love and happiness. With the turning of a thought, you can experience again every strata of sensation as if it were happening right now. Could you fight the temptation to wander through the joys of childhood forever, the dark abyss of every tragic loss waiting to consume you in a moment’s indulgence?

And still there is another facet to eldar life that we must consider; one which with all of the imagination in the world we cannot hope to emulate with human experience. The perfection of emotion, thought and body is physical, chemical, natural. The eldar existence goes beyond this, into the realm of the psychic. I’m not talking the big stuff – the prophecies of the farseers or ravening blasts of lightning – I’m talking about the everyday empathy, the sense of the wider universe and the crushing awareness of all other living things hovering on the edge of detection. Grief shared is not just social or a matter of body language, it is an unconscious touch inside your mind; joy shared is not just a contagious smile, it is a flood of happiness fuelled by the experiences of others.

No wonder the eldar went insane.

And so we come to the Path. This is the means by which each of these tortuous gifts can be turned off and on. The Path is the net that caught the eldar after the Fall. It is the Path that brings calm to the mental storm, brings peace to the constant bombardment of sensation, dulls the psychic sense and allows the exploration of self.

But for Korlandril, protagonist of Path of the Warrior, the Path brings no peace, only war and death, experienced in a way only an eldar can experience it...

Source: Gav Thorpe Guestblog

Yriel what a nice guy

2010-08-07T05:04:00.004+02:00

Hey guys,

while looking forward to my upcoming vacation to italy (leaving in 14 hours!) I'm contemplating my current incarnation of the GT list, with 2 extra boxes of Fire Dragons on the way I should be able to playtest this list as soon as I get back from vacation. I'm really curious to see Yriel on the table and test his abilities on the table top next to the spinners and the always painfull Fire Dragons.

Yriel 155

5 DA Waveserpent Spirit stones, tl scatterlaser, shurikan cannon pintle 195

5 DA Waveserpent Spirit stones, tl scatterlaser, shurikan cannon pintle 195

6 FD's Waveserpent Spirit stones, tl shurikan cannon 206

9 FD's Waveserpent Spirit stones, tl scatterlaser, shurikan cannon pintle 296

Nightspinner Spirit stones 125

1698 pts.

The current plan is to put Yriel into the large FD sqaud as a CC deterent. Or depending on the opponent maybe split him off an small FD squad and start hunting something with a 3+ armour save to take a"look" at.

The 2 small Fire Dragon squads should be able to take out the most immenant threat (landraiders carring something scary). While the spinners pummel the rest into submission. This army has a lot more "I get on the table and blast you!" power, which the previous list really didn't have. overall I'm really looking forward to playtesting this list!

As for the man himself I'm considering doing a conversion to get the pose more like the picture you see at the beginning of this post. I'm thinking some Dire Avenger parts combined with some corsair cloaks should do the trick together with some Highelf weapons. I'm also thinking about putting corsair cloaks on the Fire Dragons, the scally look should really complement their overall look and feel. It will also get me some much needed conversion points.

So overall a long way to go until the dutch GT but I'm looking forward to going down that road.

See you guys in a week!

p.s. picked up path of the warrior from the black library will post a review on it when I get back!

1500 points tournament review

2010-08-01T19:35:00.010+02:00

Well After sleeping 2,5 hours I headed over to rotterdam and Gamers of the West for the tournament. After a crazy journey, everything that could go wrong did. I arrived late but since it was only a 4 man tournament anyways it wasn't a problem. Besides me with eldar there was a Space wolves player, a tau and a Tyranids player. I took the list I posted in my previews post and got paired with the spacewolves player for game 1

Game 1 Spearhead, capture and controll.

against Space wolves list:

logan

wolfpriest terminator armour living lighting and the difficult terrain power.

3 units of 5 terminators (all have missel launcher 2 units have combi weapons other one powerweapons)

2 missle launcher speeders

6 longangs with 5 missle launchers

and 3 droppods

He dropped the 2 combi weapon terminator units and the logan/priest longfangs (they were made relentless in his shooting phase and fearless in my turns. His misdropped his droppods and I should have won the game from then on. But in the last turn I blew up the landspeeder contesting my objective but it endeded up killing my last claiming Dire Avenger. On the other objective I manageded to fail a LD 10 panic test and ran off the board so after being lined up for a 2-0 win it ended in a 0-0 draw. result 10-10

Next mission was Kill points with pitched battle deployment against the new nids codex (my first time) His list consisted of something like:

2 flying Hive tyrants
2 trygons
1 unit termaguants (10 or so)
1 unit hormogaunts with droppod
1 zoantrhope
1 unit of 8 genestealers

He played the game brilliantly and I made a big mistake. He linned up everything and I was dumb enough te reserve everything I should have just lined up and start shooting those big bugs. But by reserving by time my turn 2 came around he had lined up his entire army at about 12-18' of my deployment edge, so when I came on I was trapped by the terrain and his beasts I managed to kill one Flyrant but not the tygon on the left flank so next turn I was jumped by the Genestealers and and trygon. I instantly los 3 kill points and ended up loosing 11 -3 This game really made me rethink my army list. reulst 18-2 loss

Last game was loot counters with dawn of war deployment. this game was agaisnt a inexperienced Tau player so evened out the playing field a bit since my experience with full mech was less then optimal. we rolled and got 5 counters. Well the deployment really buggered his deployment his list consists something like

1 HQ battlesuit twinlinkked missile launchers
2 twinlinked missle lunchers suits
2 fireknifes

2 units of 12 fire warriors 1 devilfish
2 units of 12 kroot

unit of pathfinders with devilfish

2 broadsides with 4 shield drones
2 hammerheads

This game was over before it began. He claimed 3 objectives straight on but end of the game I had 3 to his 2 objectives giving me a 16-4 win. I only lost a single waveserpent in the prosess he had lost his 2 hammerheads 2 suit teams. I had faced off with his 2 hammerhads broadsides and suit teams on the left side and won so I had the space to claim 3 objectives and was short 5 mm to contest his 2de to give me the 18-2.

in the end I had managed to stay of last place so ended 3 out of four which was fine by me considering my games. after the tournament I had a talk with a friend of mine from germany karnstein (http://thelamentofbavematha.blogspot.com) and I've decided to try a different style list lovingly named Eldar reserve alpha strike:

Yriel 155

5 DA Waveserpent Spirit stones, tl scatterlaser, shurikan cannon pintle 195

6 FD's Waveserpent Spirit stones, tl shurikan cannon 206

9 FD's Waveserpent Spirit stones, tl scatterlaser, shurikan cannon pintle 296

Nightspinner Spirit stones 125

1698 pts.

most obvious changes is in the HQ section no seer and Yriel as a CC counter/deterrent. Also I choose to go lighter on the troops section to get more powerfull power in to stand a chance agaisnt the GT style lists. using the FD units to hits the hard tanks or disembarking units from destroyed transports. It also has a lot more S6 shooting per tank with the underslung cannons. In total this list has a total of 22 twinlinked S6 shots, 12 S6 shots, 2 S6 Large blasts and 20 Melta guns.

So comments suggestions are welcome, any questions I'll try to answer them as soon as I can

Prepering for this weekends tournament

2010-07-29T03:25:00.007+02:00

Hello fellow bloggers and followers,

I'm currently hard at work getting the models for my GT army together and was fortunate enough to be invited for a small tournament this weekend so I'm in a mad dash to complete assembly of 1500 of the final 1700 points GT list to enter this tournament.

It will be my first test run with the nightspinners and looking forward to finally seeing them in action on the table top. So I will be taking a partially slimmed down version of the GT list shown on the top left:

HQ:178
Farseer: doom, runes of warding, Spear (Psychic Defence& LD10)
Autarch: fusion gun (Reserve & LD10)

Troops:639
7 DA's, waveserpent (scatterlaser,ss)
7 DA's, waveserpent (scatterlaser,ss)
8 DA's waveserpent (scatterlaser.ss)

Elite:430
5 FD's, waveserpent (scatterlaser,shurikancannons,ss)
5 FD's, waveserpent (scatterlaser,shurikancannons,ss)

Heavy: 250
Nightspinner (ss)
Nightspinner (ss)

Totaal 1497 pts.

big difference 1 DA squad less but 2 pintle mounted shurikan cannons extra on the Fire Dragon rides. Idea behind that is once I drop those off this guy will go gunboating (had the extra points anyway so might as well get some more fire power).

Hoping to see some of the new dexes as I've yet to play against the new blood angels/Wolves or Nids and only had one game against IG. So all in all it should give me some nice practise for the GT. Now I'm just hoping Nightspinners will be allowed at the GT.

I've spend the last 2 days assembling and magnetizing my wave serpents and 2 spinners so there all ready for the tournament and test games but still loose enough so I can take them apart for painting.

I Got to say 7 gravtanks look mighty impressive standing there in my window.

Will keep you update on the tournament!

spider hate

2010-07-07T16:18:00.002+02:00

Well had a bit of a downer today. I enrolled in a tournament here for 9 october, and was hoping to bring my GT with the new spinners and see how the are doing in the tournament beta. but I was told that since they aren't in the codex I can't use the new rules.

on the upside however Imperial armour is allowed so I guess I'm taking them as the IA Nightspinners with their 7" blast template and transport capacity so I altered my GT list to fit with the new restrictions and come up with the following.

HQ:178
Farseer: doom, runes of warding, Spear (Psychic Defence& LD10)
Autarch: fusion gun (Reserve & LD10)

Troops:840
5 DA's, waveserpent (scatterlaser,ss) Farseer
5 DA's, waveserpent (scatterlaser,ss) Autarch
5 DA's, waveserpent (scatterlaser)
5 DA's, waveserpent (scatterlaser)
5 DA's (in nightspinner)
5 DA's (in nightspinner)

Elite:410
5 FD's, waveserpent (scatterlaser,ss)
5 FD's, waveserpent (scatterlaser,ss)

Heavy: 270
Nightspinner
Nightspinner

Totaal 1698 pts.

I had to drop some stuff (4 Spiritstones) to get the more expensive IA spinners in but nou I have 6 scoring units in gravtanks with 2 7"blast templates dropping in. Still it brings me to the following when is something considered to be codex legal if added later. Hoping that the GT will allow the rules will be totally bumbed if they don't.

1700pts spider madness

2010-07-03T20:05:00.003+02:00

After reading Silar's post at the fallen Princes I was tempted to refine my take on this concept within the restrictions of the tournament scene over here the 1700 pts. I came up with the following list:

Autarch Tar'tule 125pts
WJG, mandiblaster,powerweapon, fusion gun

Autarch Nur'Mort 125pts
WJG, mandiblaster,powerweapon, fusion gun

10 Warpspiders 262pts
Exarch, dualspinners, powerblades,Withdraw

10 Warpspiders 262pts
Exarch, dualspinners, powerblades,Withdraw

10 Warpspiders 262pts
Exarch, dualspinners, powerblades,Withdraw

6 Pathfinders 144pts

6 Pathfinders 144pts

Nightspinners (ss) 125pts

Nightspinners (ss) 125pts

Nightspinners (ss) 125pts

1699pts

using the Nightspinners to keep things slowed down together with the Pathfinders. While the enemy is being disturbed all of a sudden he is jumped by the Warpspiders. The Autarch providing me with some nice reserve boosts and Melta support to get those darned landraiders.

66 S6 shots combined with 2 melta's and 3 S6 largeblasts and 12 rending snipers shots is a scary thing not to mention the 24 powerweapon attacks on the charge.

think you can kill the spider, you'll end up in a sticky situation!

itzy bitzy Spider

2010-06-23T16:45:00.002+02:00

I was happy to receive my nightspinner kits yesterday and spend today cleaning up the models and getting ready to magnetize them and get ready for final assembly. So far I've been hoping that they will be allowed at the up and coming GT event but so far I have not received any conformation.

Should they be considered illegal or just not allowed I can always turn them back into fire prisms. This would be disappointing but if it's the case I'll have to deal with it.

I I have more visual updates I will share them with you as soon as I can.

on the construction table at the moment 6 waveserpents and 2 Nightspinners Up next are the DA's and a couple of tries for my basing ideas.

3D model of the GT display board

2010-06-09T20:10:00.002+02:00

Hey people took some time to make a 3D model of the display base. Curious to see what you think :

Click for a Larger Version

I had to change some things a little bit to make it all fit better so the fire dragons are going to be on the forward docks together with the loot counters. The Objective is placed in the center between all the Dire Avengers. The farseer and Autarch are on the deck together with their personal body guard and ride. The nightspinners and their counters are on the right raised area. I'm probably going to paint 1 or to interiors of the waveserpents so I can open them and let them look like they are boarding.

GT Display Board Concept II

2010-06-09T00:32:00.006+02:00

Since sleeping isn't working out I thought I'd make up a second lets symmetrical and more story telling Display board. This one is an Eldar Space port with the host getting ready to depart to reclaim a maiden world:

Click for larger version

The darker area's are lowered so the grav ranks don't blok the view to the infantry standing behind it. the raised tower would be made with MDF and can be taken apart., for flat packing.

so what do you think?

Edit: Grass version:

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GT Display Board Concept

2010-06-08T21:29:00.006+02:00

Hey everybody not being able to paint or build because my hand still in a cast (broke it, long story) I decided I'd think up a concept for a GT display base about 30 Min of Illustrator madness gave me this graphic for me to show you:

Click for larger Version

So what do you think? the risen area's will house the Nightspinners and their counters. while the main mass of the army in inside a grav tank courtyard. The light curved area is going to be some slate or tile work. The base of the grav tanks will be also be sunk in the board and all bases will match their surroundings. The lootcounters and objective will most likely be some sort of Planetarium display like this but then more eldar style off course:

GT points

2010-06-04T16:44:00.003+02:00

With regards to the GT I'm looking at my army and see where I can make adjustments and plan so I can get as much as I can. So let's see where we can score some points pregame:

Painting points (0-30) a big part of the pregame points is painting which is split up in several aspects.

Basing (0-4): Here I hope to get 4 points but it's going to take some effort since it needs to be more than just simple sand and flock so some work to be done here! some nice plasticard cobblestones and other detailing. This also include Flying bases so have to make sure those are based and painted as well

Detailing (0-10): This is the real painting technique point, things like Highlighting blending and such as well as overall clean painting are rated here, with my current plan I should be able to get another 4 to 6 points on this one (10 point is very close to golden daemon level here). The army is going to be painted with highlights and if time permits some glowing eyes as well. Think Saim Hann scheme but replace the red with purple. So Purple bodies with white helmets and Black viziers, green eyes and gems. The grav tanks will most likely have some airbrushing on them.

Army Coherency (0-4): How does your army fit together look wise. Does it seem like a coherent looking army Do characters fit but stand out at the same time? here I should be getting 4 points since I plan to keep everything with the same scheme with subtle differences in model and color for the 2 different aspects. The Theme for the army is Spacey so dark purple infantry with galaxy scenes on the gravtanks. The theme will also come back in the unit markings

Unit markings(0-6): Well first of if you have any system of squad markings you can easily get 4 points. I hope that by using Dire Avenger Flags on each unit as a center point for unit marking and markings on each model to tie the units in together. I plan to mark them on the back tabards of the Dire Avengers which the Fire Dragons will also receive! Furthermore some subtle markings like different patterns on the Dire Avengers Mohawks and the gems should be enough for 6 points.
I'm using the Lunar cycle as unit markings because I think it fits the dark and spacey feel of the army:

Conversions(0-6): I plan to convert my Farseer to hold a Dark Eldar cold one flag as a marking for both him and the army (looks like a larger version of the Dire Avenger Flag). Furthermore I'm converting my Yriel model with a Fusion gun. I'm also giving my Fire Dragons some Dire Avenger tabards. This together with some raised squad markings on my transports using plasticard should get me about 2 to 4 points for conversions.

Non-Painting points (0-20) After painting points there are some more points which include WYSIWYG which is judged harshly and points for army roster.

Army presentation(0-5): This is where your army list comes into play it should at least have all the units and their rules and stats. I'm going to use my superior Photoshop skills to turn it into something special and make sure It's going to have the Wow factor to get max points here.

WYSIWYG(0-15): These are easy points to get, just make sure all the things are shown where needed! This is even includes grenades all though those are usually ignored if everything else is in order. so should be 15 points right there.

all in all a lot of things to take into account to score a good amount of points. I predict I'll be around 30 to 38 points give or take judge's temper. But I'm also planning to make a carrying case which includes a display board which should help me get in the judges favor. Combine this with some nice Nightspinner filament markers and some nice army themed Objective counters (star observatory style or something).

Preparations For my First GT

2010-06-02T21:38:00.002+02:00

Well since I've been playing with my Eldar for about a year and a half now and still failing to complete my conversions on my Jetbikes to finally get my act together and start painting I decided it might be time for a different goal. So after I got my first ever 2de placing in a tournament I said to myself maybe it's time I build an army and went to a GT.

But I wanted to take a different army from my normal one since I won't be able to finish my Jetbikes in time. So I sat down and looked at my army book and noticed I couldn't stop looking at the grav tanks. They where the thing I fell in love with and what drew me to the Eldar when I picked up 40K. So I went to see how many I could put into a list and still have my bases covered. I figured with the still very much alive melta craze the energy shield rules of the wave serpents would be a great think to take advantage of. But it needs to be backed up with some long range Fire support. Now before the release of the Nightspinner I would have had no question about what to take for this role. But with the new rules I can see great potential for the Nightspinner in the list I was considering to take.

Being mostly gravtanks one of the main worries is to keep your stuff alive once the step out their ride to take some action, especially the fire dragons need this. So to keep them alive I want to use the Night spinner to cover their retreat and to help them to reach beneficial positions to do their job. Also being barrage when the fire dragons pop a transport and the cargo decides to hide behind the wreckage I can still shoot at them.

So I present you my first take on my GT list for the Dutch GT 2010:

HQ:178

Farseer, Doom, runes of warding, Spear (Psychic Defence& LD10)

Autarch, fusion gun (Reserve & LD10)

Troops:860

7 DA's, waveserpent (scatterlaser,ss) Farseer

7 DA's, waveserpent (scatterlaser,ss) Autarch

8 DA's, waveserpent (scatterlaser,ss)

Elite:410

5 FD's, waveserpent (scatterlaser,ss)

Heavy: 250

Nightspinner (ss)

Totaal 1698 pts.

you al will notice the lack of Bright Lances in favor of the cheaper Scatterlasers. This because I feel that with 2 units of Fire Dragons for the really hard tanks I have enough S 6 shooting and maneuverability to take out the rest. Same thing is for the spirit stones I want to make sure I can keep moving. This keeps the Nightspinners free to keep moving back and away should the enemy come to close.

Also this list will hopefully make my opponent shudder with the fact that there are 8 gravtanks across him with an Autarch to support my usual reserve tactics. The Farseer should help me keep from falling to Psychic powers like living lightning and the likes. While the occasional Doom support would be help full with getting some more chance on rending and general wounding with my S6.

So what do you all think of this list and playstyle?

comments are more than welcome

Nightspinner Tactica

2010-06-02T16:30:00.002+02:00

As you have all probably heard by now the new Eldar tank has hit the scene and boy is it a piece of work. A short recap of its stats and rules for the people that don't have the White Dwarf:

Night Spinner

Twin-linked Doomweaver: 12-72" S:6 AP: - Heavy 1, Large Blast, Barrage, Rending

Place a marker next to any unit hit. Any such units count as being in difficult and dangerous terrain the next time they move for any reason. After they have competed their next movement, remove the marker.

Twin-linked Shuriken Catapult, BS:3 , 12/12/10, Fast, Skimmer, Tank

It's priced the same as a Fire Prism it takes the same HS slot but it's not the same and I'm glad it isn't. The most obvious thing is the difference in weaponry since the rest is the same as every other Falcon based chassis.

The main weapon has decent stats and fills a decent anti horde role. Rending giving you some you a decent chance to inflict some casualties on MeQ's en the likes as well. I personally love having a Large Blast twin-linked weapon. Giving you a decent chance to hit your target even when shooting without line of sight when your BS has no influence.

Now most people are quick to say it's a useless unit because it would have to replace the Fire Prism. I like the fire Prism but with the large amounts of cover saves. Now a day's most of its effectiveness is lost. And Night spinners work great on their own with their standard twin-linked and S6 large Blast it's better at taking on some large groups.

All this is great but where it really shines is the special rule it has. Every unit hit by the template is treated like being in difficult and dangerous terrain the next time they move for any reason (this also means failing a panic check, Assaulting, or having to move out of the way after a tank shock). The great advantage of Dangerous terrain tests ignore cover save, armour saves and FnP saves. This is a whole lot better in my humble opinion then any low AP weapon with the cover saves of the current meta game.

Besides the dangerous terrain it's also going to slow your opponent down which is great in the current game of moving towards objectives. Slowing down all infantry models and a chance to immobilize a vehicle. And don't forget barrage means pin checks which is just about the best thing to have in the current meta! A full turn lost doing absolutely nothing is going to drive you opponent crazy.

Now let's see if we can think of some nice tricks, I personally like a trick I like to call

the Bunnies in the Headlight:

This is a great trick against the smart guy that thinks oh well if I can just stand still to avoid the damage I will do so. This is usually the case with gunline armies. The trick to handle this is to get your grav-tanks into effect. 24"tank shocks can hit a lot of units and force panic checks. So if you see he is keeping his units stationary shoot up his units hitting multiple units. Then prepare a tankshock, preferably a weapon less tank or otherwise less then optimal tank, and make a flank move. Then lay it on him tank shock as many units as possible and make sure you can park it on a unit so you force all of them to move as well. The unit that has to move out of the way has to take dangerous terrain checks. all the others need to make panic checks which if failed will cause them to take wounds when they run.

It's just one of many things you can do with this great new unit any tricks or things you have cooked up are off course more than welcome to share them here.

2th Place

2010-05-16T21:06:00.003+02:00

It's been ages since I posted on the blog but I had to tell you guys what happened this last saturday!

For the first time in my warhammer 40K tournaments I placed in the top 10. This was the goal I had set for myself for the tournament I played in this saturday. After the first to games I had all ready gathered a 15-5 victory and a 18-2. So I was pretty certain of a top 10 placing (20-man tournament). Going in to the last game I was paired up with one of the most experienced and well know 40K players in the Netherlands. After a tense and exiting game the smoke cleared It was a perfect draw 10-10 leaving me with 43 out of 60 battle points and with 30 Pregame points I totalled up to 73.

Now this was a great result for me and I was having a great day. I figured I would probably be placing 5 or 6th overall. You can Imagine my surprise when they where announcing the winners and after 3th place going by, and 2th place was up I heard my name! it turned out the first place was a draw with both players getting 80 points.

It's a great morale boost for me to finally get some decent placing in a tournament with my future wish to play at a gt event. With 2 more tournaments line -up the next two weekends I should be getting in some decent practise.

I'm also playing around with a new army list I would love to try out in the future and take to the GT. It's not a Jetbike army like the one you all know I'm playing right now. Instead it consists of the following:

HQ:178
Farseer: doom, runes of warding, Spear (Psychic Defence& LD10)
Autarch: fusion gun (Reserve & LD10)

Troops:860
7 DA's, waveserpent (scatterlaser,ss) Farseer
7 DA's, waveserpent (scatterlaser,ss) Autarch
8 DA's, waveserpent (scatterlaser,ss)
8 DA's, waveserpent (scatterlaser,ss)

Elite:410
5 FD's, waveserpent (scatterlaser,ss)
5 FD's, waveserpent (scatterlaser,ss)

Heavy: 250
Fire Prism (ss)
Fire Prism (ss)

Totaal: 1698 pts.

It is based around the Idea of using the speed and armour of the eldar combined with the reserve rules of the Autarch to jump the enemy with superior firepower and force on the place he can least deflect it.

Many of you eldar players will probably be aware of the eldar swing wing principle. It's perfect for a speedy army like eldar. use you superior mobility to flank the opponent and engulf him leaving him with no room to breath. This is why I employ Spirt Stones on all my skimmers to keep things moving!

Comments and Suggestions more the Welcome

Ducosim 12 December vs. Imperial guard/ DaemonHunters

2009-12-20T14:14:00.007+01:00

Game two: Kill points, spearhead
against: IG & Daemon Hunters (with IG)
score: 6-14 minor loss

The second game was a Killpoint mission with spearhead deployment against a Vendatta heavy combo of Imperial guard and Daemon hunters. This was by far the most frustrating game in the entire tournament. I faced the nemesis of my army, the Vendetta's and Vulture could match my speed and outgunned me completly.

We started with everything in reserve because we knew that we would get hammerd if we we had set-up the whole army. In hind sight it might have been better to do this and hope to get some stuff early on but well that wasn't our plan at the time.

So we reserved everything and they deployed just about everything I believe with only a vendatta in reserve and an assasin.

The begin phase of this game showed us how amazing shooting is from IG when the Belail command squad showed up it was shot down to 3 models (1 of which belail) by the awesome firepower of the skimmers. I got 1 guardain bike squad in the beginning of the game which was whiped out by the assain in one short sweep. netting them the first Kp followed by our first one when my Waveserpent got on and obliterated the assasin.

Mid game showed some more kill points over at our side and thiers. we managed to score some kill point on a transport (I believe a rhino of the Deamon hunter force). they got more Jetbikes and eventually my Fire Dragons and waveserpent after they tried to take out a vendatta which they failed to do ( 3 penatrating melta shots resulted in 1 weapon destroyed and 2 shaken results) in hind sight I forgot to add the +1 for the Ap1 melta so it would ahve been immobilised and stunned but that's my own fault I guess.

The end of the game saw them picking up some more Killpoints while we strugeld to get some ourself. we managed to pick-up a transport and a squad when they tried to plasma the Terminaotrs to death they managed to kill Belail but his squad was stil their with only the assault cannon guy surviving. The seer Council was a big bust this game with the old Psychic hood shutting down Fortune until turn 7 which left them running for cover all moust the entire game but picking up 2 Kill points taking out the squad and transport last turn. we managed to immobilise a vendetta and kill the vulture.

"IEK!!"

This is where I got a kick in the face, they claimed there flying base was glued on so they couldn't set it on the ground (immobilised) so it kept hovering over terrain which would have blocked it's line of sight if set on the table. But they said the rulebook said it if you can't remove the abse you can keep it on the base. So we let it go , and you know what I happend to see when they where playing at the final table, IT WAS ON THE TABLE. I was so pissed of when I saw that and left me with an even worst taste in my mouth.

We had lost our land Speeder/Serpent/ Fire Dragons/ 2 Jetbike squads/ Belail / and the 2 vindicators giving up 8 Kill Points and they lost a vendatta/vulture/ veteran squad and 2 rhino's leaving us with 5 Kill points. Leaving us with a 6-14 loss and a total of 80 battle points up till now.

New additions

2009-12-18T16:03:00.004+01:00

Finally got the extra Fire Dragons I ordered. I needed them to get some more Dragons to stay WYSIWYG when I change some stuff. I usually take my Exarch with a normal fusion gun or not at all so I got an extra normal fire dragon made with a flag socket and a new Exarch which will get a fusion gun when I buy an fusion gun autarch for the bit. Unfortunatly while working on the Exarch it broke in half on the waist so glued it together but I hope I can fix it up a bit with some greenstuff because It would be a waste if the model I use the most (normal fusion gun exarch) has a scar on the abodomen. anyways some pictures of the Wip models on their rises.

Ducosim 12 December vs. Space Marines

2009-12-16T23:25:00.006+01:00

Game one: Seize ground, 3 objectives, pitched battle
against: Khan SM & Pedro SM
score: 20-0 Massacre
This was a 3 lootcounter game with victory points.

We where playing against a pedro Sternguard army and a Khan biker army. Actually pregame I was pretty impressed by the army it had some decent speed some good shooting and most of all a lot of Space Marines. The game turned into our favour with our opponents rolling 3 1's the first roles giving us the edge and them the first turn. We deployed nothing and his scouts had nothing to shoot at first turn.

Midgame our stuff started coming on and so did theirs but with some great luck we managed to take out 2 Rhino's pretty fast and left them stranded a unit of bikes and Khan and some outflanking rhino marines ended up on the left side Pedro a vindicator and other stuff on the right. Some assualt followed by some epic failing on their cc rolls left me holding a non Powerweapon SM biker unit on the right flank which got mauled by Belail in later turns. The centre was fermly in our grip with the terminaotors and vindicators setting up excelent firelanes. Other Jetbike squad got jumped by the other biker without khan (god knows why he left him out and single on the back of the board. The Jetbikes lost Combat but got away and left the bikes open for a Seer Council counter charge which ended the SM bikes!

End game we managed to pop more Rhino's and left the SM dwindling even more with more VIndicator shots hitting home. I assaulted the straglers on the right flank with the council which was counter charged by Khan but ended up getting routed of the board and with the guardian Jetbikes rallied they made an end run for the left counter. With the terminators on the central two objectives we had all 3 counters and with more then 400 Vp in our favour

Back from Ducosim 12 December

2009-12-13T14:37:00.007+01:00

After a long day of gaming followed by a good night of drinking beer and talking about the games I come back bearing some results. After a hard day of gaming me and my partner managed to take a tied 3 place with 2 other teams which was pretty good since I missed 6 points due to basing and painting. (damm it would have paid to be painted ;) ) But It was still a great day of gaming and making top 3 made it my best tournament result to this day!

We had some really nice games and we made loads of pictures, I will update those in future posts when I get them from my team mate. But first a short recap. (Forge world was allowed except super heavies and Flyers)

Game one: Seize ground, 3 objectives, pitched battle
against: Khan SM & Pedro SM
score: 20-0 Massacre

This game became all about bad luck for the space marine players I guess the Warp energy was bent in our favour with some incredible feats of luck for us. In the end they only had some some random stuff and pedro left but without any objectives and 400+ vp in our advantage the Seerwing took the game with a overwhelming massacre. MVP was the Scatterlaser serpent and assault cannon terminators. We managed to pop a lot of Rhino's with the S6 shooting effectively killing their mobility and winning us the game fairly easy.

Game two: Kill points, spearhead
against: IG & Daemon Hunters (with IG)
score: 6-14 minor loss

This was the game where I was pissed there was forge world allowed. I also witnessed the annoyance of the old Psychic hood fortune didn't go off until till turn 7. This list features 3 vendetta's and a Forge World Vulture. we were completely outgunned and even out manoeuvred. The Deamonhunter's brought up a assassin which killed a guardian jetbike unit in a single turn but got killed in return. but after that we just didn't seem to get a brake failing to get kills on the vulture or vendetta's they kept shooting us up from a distance we ended up loosing 5-8 Killpoints

most annoying unit in the game: Vulture with it's 20 Twin linked shots and the Inquisitor with the psychic hood.

Game three: Take and Hold, Dawn of war
Against: Droppod SM, Droppod black templar
score: 10-10 Draw

This was the last and the best game of the tournament. We had some great fun and laughs during the game. opponents where just as laid back and willing to play a good game as we were. Being droppods we choose to reserve everything which turned out to be a good thing since they had the Dreaghnought assault droppods form the imperial armour. They droppod a lot of crap on our objective forcing us to have to clean up a lot of contesting droppods and dreadnoughts and they castled up around their objective. In the end the game went to turn 7 and ended in a perfect draw. Cool game we just kept failing to contest their objective with all the fast stuff getting taken out or stuck in prolonged CC.

All in all a nice tournament lot of very hardcore lists (2 very nasty Daemon lists and IG vulture spam) which dominated top spots but because we had some good games and a lot of pre game points we still managed to get into the top. We shared the third spot with the droppod army and 1 of the daemon players (which won best painted with the Nurgle part of the doubles army).

Stuff for the Future, GET PAINTING! I keep loosing out on painting points which hurts my overall performance I'm a decent player and I think I know how to play with my army but I just keep getting hammered in the end due to usually missing out on about 15 or so points of painting (in the 1700 single player tournaments). I might skip the next one and go to the one after that with a hopefully painted army by then.

Hope you enjoyed this little debriefing hopefully I can get my hands on the pictures soon and Ill try to give you some more detailed reports on the games with some visuals

Cheers CJ

Packing up for a tournament, SeerWing goes to town

2009-12-11T00:12:00.007+01:00

With my next tournament this Saturday I decided to pack up my stuff. Which includes my above shown mini army. It's only a 1K per player doubles tournament, half of which is my seer Council. So not a whole lot of models (16 Jetbikes, 6 Infantry and 1 Grav tank).

Also in my bag are the essentials:

Tape Measure Dice & Scatter Die Templates Armylist (x2) Recent FaQ Codex Rulebook Objective & Loot Counters

Always a lot of stuff to drag around to a tournament I currently don't own a army case that can fit all my stuff so I always end up taking a extra bag. How do you solve the mass transportation of your tournament gear?

Further more to get my force completly WYSIWYG I have magnetised the Waveserpent soit also has all the upgrades shown; Spirit stones (Glued on since I always take those), Star Engines & the Energy Shield. Also fully magnetised the turret so it can spin but won't fall off during use .

I love magnets! they save me the hassle of transporting a waveserpent with the energy shield generators attached (never fits) also I hate it when stuff falls of when you are playing (turrents and the likes) So therefor I put in my magnets and get some nice playable stuff.

Tournement Point System:

me and my teammate found out that we can collect about 50/55out of a possible 60 pregame points. With a bit of luck our armylists got their in time which nets us a nice 20 points. We both have a WYSIWYG force another 20. And we will probably get about 10 to 15 points for painting and conversion out of 20 ( I need to paint my army :P ).

So we are all ready at a good start with a possible 60 more points out of battle points we hope we will do well.

Anyways that's it for today, will keep you informed on the Tournament outcome.

The Art of War

2009-12-09T17:16:00.005+01:00

Hey people I know it's been a long time since I posted here, but I'm back in business. University is still taking up a lot of my time but I have been getting more games in and I'm happy with how things are going. Been playing some hard armies and learned a lot. Also been trying out my part of a Doubles Tournament list which I will be attending this Saturday.

I'll be playing with a deathwing player and we have some good combanations it seems. Our try out game ended in a win for us, if that ain't a good sign I don't know what is :). anyways on to the lists:

Mine:

Jetbike council (farseer with the usal upgrades, 3x destructor, enchance and Embolden warlocks)

2 x 6 Jetbikes 2 Shurikancannons

1 x 6 Fire dragons
with Waveserpetn (Scatterlasers, spiritstones, starengines)

not that different from my bigger list and a solid army which I know by hart.

I will be supported by:

Belail (claws)

2 x 5 termies (assault cannon, chainfist etc normal max wound allocation build) one of the squads has belails apothecary.

2 vindicators (dozerblades)

and a MM and Heavyflamer landspeeder

also a solid list which seems to agument mine in a good way. So looking forward to the tournament with 10 teams we hope we reach the top 5 at least hopefully top 3. But we will ahve to see how it goes. Some of the Dutch best players are teaming up so it's a tough competition.

On another note I've been reading a great book latly "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu. It's a book about the filosofie of warfare as written by Sun Tzu. It's great stuff and a lot of it can be taken into daily life and in warhammer. Especially for all you Saim Hann boys out there it's a great read. It really goes into the art of misdirection through speed and psychology. It's something I think all warhammer players should read all though then the edge wouldn't be on my side of the board anymore I guess ;). Just look it up it's like 10 or 15$.

So hope this gets you guys back into the swing of things.

Cheers CJ

First reports from the Front!

2009-09-13T21:08:00.003+02:00

Hello there bloggers,

after another great tournament followed by a night on the town I'm going to give you the first short run down of the tournament. I managed to gather 55 points out of a possible 100 which considering I got 0 points for painting and such. I gathered 25 pregame points and 30 battle points with a Draw against orks in a Annihilation mission with Spearhead deployment. This game was against the ork player that kicked my ass at the previous tournament. So I was more then happy to draw against this very well playing guy. If any of you know fritz and have seen his games might have seen the Swing Wing I was able to put this in to work for the first time only to get my 2 guardian jetbike squads charged by the outflanking Ork Commando's. (In retro speck I'm wondering if they could have made that move seeing as they just came on the board?)after all the dust settled we where tied at 3-3 KP which gave me a 10-10 draw

This game was followed with a Dawn of War with Capture and Control. Which gave me the chance to use my just completed Objective marker, which was a joy to behold on the table. The game was against a friend of mine which I hat yet to battle so it was nice to see him appear on the other side of the table. He played a Sternguard heavy list with kantor and stubbern and scoring guys all over the board. The game was a perfect one for me with only a few glitches in my battle plan But eventually I was able to contest his objective and claim my own after a 7 round game. Giving me a 15-5 major victory

The last game was one that I would like to do over because it got ruined due to some miscommunication. I met another guy I wanted to play which was the guy that drove me to the tournament last time. The game was a seize ground with pitched battle. The guy plays a deathravenwing with both sammuel and belail and scoring bikers and terminators. This was hard fought game I was out gunned and outmaneuvered. He knows his army inside out and even though his luck was crap he eventually claimed victory on turn 5. I was disappointed because it should have been a draw since we where told we only had 15 minutes left while he was making his turn 4 assaults. This led me to make my end game moves on turn 4 but he then said we had enough time to make another turn which I should have refused. as it turned out we did go over time on turn 5 and I got whiped because I had placed everything for a turn 4 end contesting all his objectives now he had 2 turns of combat to destroy my units which he easily did with his Termies. Leaving me with a nasty after taste and a 5-15 loss which should have been a 10-10 draw.

In the End I had collected 30 Battle points and my first ever tournament game win. so not a bad result I guess. I just need to get my models finished for the 15 extra points :). It was a good practice run with my new list that did pretty good considering the amount of Kill points and failing use of my Fire dragons. Thanks for readying I will try to make some more detailed reports tomorrow hopefully I can remember as much as I can :).

Cheers CJ

Ducosim 12 September

2009-09-11T12:25:00.002+02:00

Hey fellow bloggers,

Today I'm packing for my 2de ever tournament! it's Ducosim time again! It's a Dutch tournament held 4 times a year. The previous edition was my first Tournament and I had a Blast, Great people (with only exeptions) and nice terrain and funlists. That was 3 months ago so it's time for the next one :). I'm still no where near even completing my modelling so no painting points for me but with a lot of conversions and a checked army list and only slight WYSIWYG problems I should have 20 out of the possible 40 point pregame. Which should be a nice start.

I changed my list from last time and decided to try out the fire Dragons so with some cutting and slicing I fitted them in there. Resulting in the following list:

HQ: 450pts

Farseer: 175
With doom, Fortune, Spirit stones, Runes of warding, Jetbike

5 warlocks: 275
With 3 x Destructor, 1 x Enhance, 1 x Embolden, Jetbikes

ELITE: 248pts

6 Fire Dragons: 123
With Exarch, tankhunter

Wave Serpent: 125
With twinlinked scatterlaser, Spiritstones

TROOPS: 591pts

6 Guardian Jetbikes: 152
With 2 shurikan cannons

6 Guardian Jetbikes: 142
With 1 shurikan cannons

10 Dire Avengers: 152
With Exarch,Bladestorm,Dual catapults

Waveserpent: 145
With twinlinked Brightlance, spirit stones

FAST ATTACK: 180pts

1 Vypers: 60
With Scatterlaser

1 Vypers: 60
With Scatterlaser

1 Vypers: 60
With Scatterlaser

HEAVY SUPPORT: 230pts

Fire Prism: 115

Fire Prism: 115

It's not that different from my last list with basiclly a exchange for the Fireprism upgrades and starcannons for a Serpent with Fire dragons. These are in to finally kill those dammed Landraiders which always give me headaches and with the field also containing some IG and Orks and a 2 tau players their will be plenty of armour to shoot at!

So tomorw I'm off to try and defend the intrests of the Dragon Rider Host

May the Dragon grace you with his Inner Fire

Cheers CJ

Easter egg hunt!

2009-08-21T00:52:00.007+02:00

" Ever since the destruction of the dragons the farseers of the Dragon Rider Host have spend most of their time trying to find a surviver. This would mean a chance to once more gain the Dragons as their Immortal allies. "

Since I needed an objective and I'm still waiting on my paints to arive I decided to make one. this is was I came up with. It's a old dragon's nest with a little surprise: a Lost Dragon Egg. The host will fight fierce to defend this great source of power with their Life!

Cheers CJ

Little Update

2009-08-18T20:52:00.009+02:00

Just recieved my last wave serpent so everthing is in house for the list. I based and primed My Fire Dragons and banshees and did some test bases and eventually settled on these:

Here are the Fire dragons and their bases:

The Exarch and His Pointy finger of DOOM!:

The Banshees:

The exarch in her Leaping Death:

Not to much painting yet I'm still doing some colour testing when i decide on what scheme I'll use I will show you guys :)

Cheers CJ

Dragon Rider Host V 2.0

2009-07-26T18:04:00.003+02:00

Hey guys it's been a while since I updated here mainly due to my last period at university and the first week of my vacation (which means working at my dad's road construction company). But now I'm back and I've had a number of games under my belt with the list and I'm looking forward to getting ready for the next tournament which is september 12th.

But in the games I played I found I really needed to get some more AT in my list that would really do the job. now as you know I'm follow the way of Saim Hann since before I started my own army. Fritz has been going down the Singing spear route with his council and getting in some banshees for CC support. I've chosen to go the other way and I'm going to be using my council mainly as a hand to hand element multe charging multiple support units and just keepng them from doing their job. in order to fill the AT gap i've chosen to ditch one of my fire prisms for the fire dragons in a serpent option. this and some other changes have let to the following list:

HQ: 455pts

Farseer: 175

With doom, Fortune, Spirit stones, Runes of warding, Jetbike

5 warlocks: 280

With 4 x Doom, 1 x Enhance, Jetbikes

ELITE: 283pts

6 Fire Dragons: 128

With Exarch,tankhunter,crackshot

Wave Serpent: 155

With twinlinked scatterlaser,Vectored Engines,Spiritstones,pintle mounted shurican cannon.

TROOPS: 621pts

6 Guardian Jetbikes: 152

With 2 shurican cannons

6 Guardian Jetbikes: 152

With 2 shurican cannons

10 Dire Avengers: 152

With Exarch,Bladestorm,Dual catapults

Waveserpent: 165

With twinlinked Brightlance, Vectored Engines, spirit stones

FAST ATTACK: 180pts

1 Vypers: 60

With Scatterlaser

1 Vypers: 60

With Scatterlaser

1 Vypers: 60

With Scatterlaser

HEAVY SUPPORT: 160pts

Fire Prism: 160

With spiritstones, Holofields

Total: 1699pts

So what do you think?

Cheers CJ

Black Templar vs. The Dragon Rider Host

2009-05-24T15:12:00.007+02:00

1700 pts. Capture and Control. Spearhead

Armylist Black Templar:

Grand marshal with power weapon and crusaders seals
10 crusaders with Powerfist
4 neophytes with 2 shotguns
Landraider crusader

Emperors champion with black sword and crusader seals
10 crusaders with melta gun and Powerweapon
3 neophytes with 2 shotguns
Landraider crusader

5 man tactical squad with Plasma gun and Rhino

Dreadnought with Twinlinked lascannon and Misslelauncher

Terminators with 3 pairs of Lighting claws and 2 stormshield lightning hammer

Armylist Dragon Rider Host:

Farseer with Doom, Fortune, Spirit stones and Spear
Warlocks x 6 with 4 x Destructor, Enhance and Embolden

Guardian Jetbikes x 6 with 2 shurikancannons
Guardian Jetbikes x 6 with 2 shurikancannons
Dire Avengers x 10 with Exarch, dual Cats and Bladestrom
Waveserpent with Spiritstones and Twinlinked Brightlance

Vypers x 2 with starcannons
Vypers x 2 with starcannons

Fire Prism with Holofields and spirit stones
Fire Prism with Holofields

Deployment:
Black templar deploys his 2 Landraiders and Rhino around the building holding his objective. He also deploys his dread nought on the first floor of the same building. Looks like it is going to be hard to take his objective with a guard like that.

I deploy my Seer Council, 2 Fire Prisms and Waveserpent in my corner with as much cover as I can get. The rest goes in reserve. my objective is located all most against the short table edge to make him move as much as possible.

Turn 1 Black templar

His first turn was very uneventful. He moved up his 2 Landraiders closer to me and unloads the 5 man plasma squad in the building with the plasma gunner on the top floor. He then proceeds to the shooting phase trying to get some fire into my front Fire Prism but it glances of everything thanks to the coversave provide by the building. He poped smoke on the landraider furthest away.

Turn 1 Dragon Rider Host

First of I fortuned the council then I made my first mistake I popped out the seer council from behind cover to try and pop the closest landraider with the Spear and the rest of the shooting. The serpent moves to get into range to LoS to shoot at the same landraider. Fire Prisms get ready to combine beams. Entering the shooting phase I managed to only get a weapon destroyed from all the shooting. I opt to take of the twinlinked assaultcannon. Leaving the meltagun on their was a risk but it managed to fail shooting anything the rest of the game. I combat move my seer council back as far as I can.

Turn 2 Black templar

I now meet the horror that is landraider assault range. He turns around his landraider and moves in towards my Seer council and he manages to get unit that was in there into contact with the seer council. He also move up is 2de landraider in order to shoot at my Waveserpent. Which results in a crew shaken result thanks to spirit stones. He then move his rhino around a bit more to get more cover. He also get’s his terminators which manage to drop in right next to my Waveserpent. They run to be less template compact. In the Assault I manage to kill some initiates but he then proceeds to kill my Farseer with his S6 wielding emperors champion. The rest of the combat is a tie with me making about 16 armour saves with my still fortuned warlocks.

Turn 2 Dragon Rider Host

I get the 2 Bikers squads from reserve and place them on the far left and turboboost them for the cover save. I turboboost my serpent away from the terminators getting myself a nice 4+ cover save. The Fire Prism move away a bit to get some shots in at the Landraider but the fail to hurt it. Combat is awful and I loose another 2 warlocks to the huge squad. That reroll vow is really beginning to annoy me. I hold and stay in combat.

Turn 3 Black templar

He moves around his Terminators in order to try to hit one of my Fire Prisms. His other landraider moves back a bit to get within 12” with it’s meltagun (he failed to remember that his 2 d6 where not going to happen against the serpents energy field) his shooting also fails to do anything his dreadnought tries to shoot at my Fire Prism but misses everything. Combat ends in some more losses on both sides killing the last warlocks leaving him with about 7 marines and his champion he uses the consolidate move to spread out.

Turn 3 Dragon Rider Host

Reserves give me my 2 vypers squad and boy do I need them. I move them on moving 8”to get some nice 6’s to hit in CC bonus. The Waveserpent moves in between them and the Landraider. The Fire Prisms move in a bit to get link LoS and get ready to guard my objective. On the far left I turboboost 1 squad and make a 3+ coversave line and I move up the other bikes 12” getting me LoS to the dreadnought. Shooting phase was a lot better I manage to kill 3 Terminators with some good shooting from the vypers. The twinlinked brightlance manages to take of the Melta gun of the 2e Landraider. And the Fire Prisms S6 ap 3 shot manages to take out 4 marines only leaving him with his champ and 3 marines left. The Shurikancannons stun and shake the dreadnought then move behind their 3+ coversave brethren.

Turn 4 Black templar

He moves back his 2de landraider to try and fend of the guardian Jetbikes he moves out with his 2 big squad and then proceeds to poor shooting and assault into the first bike squad which dies like it’s supposed to leaving his squad a long way from his objective. On my side he moves his guys into the landraider and then tries to shoot a Fire Prism with it’s melta failing to hurt it yet again. The terminators assault my vypers but only manage to shake one thanks to the squadron rule.

Turn 4 Dragon Rider Host

I move away my vypers a bit from his terminators getting them ready to boost to his objective turn 5. my Waveserpent holding my dire avenger troops boost back to my objective not making the full distance but setting up for a turn 5 claim. The Fire Prisms move in a bit more to screen the objective from the landraider. I then turboboost the last guardian Jetbikes over his squad and landraider and I claim his objective. The bait is set. Shooting cleans up the last terminators but fails to hurt the landraider.

Turn 5 Black templar

He moves around his landraider a bit more to try and shoot at the Fire Prism guarding my objective. He also moves everything around at the left to shoot and assault the guardian bikes currently parked their. To my horror I find they are within assault range so I hope they die from shooting to keep away his squad of marines. He then pours everything he has at the squad killing them all but also leaving him out of assault range and giving me a clear shot at his objective. His melta raider fails to hurt my Prism.

Turn 5 Dragon Rider Host
I boost in with 1 vyper squad contesting his objective and move the 2de one in to do the same in turn 6 should that come. I move the Fire Prism in front of his landraider and move my serpent on the objective. The Fire Prism prevents him from being able to ram with his landraider keeping my serpent sae for now. Further shooting from the vypers on the dreadnought fails and same goes for the brightlances and Fire Prisms. But I hold my own objective and claim his. Time to roll 1 or 2. My opponent rolls and it’s a 1!!!! Game ends with a Saim Hann victory! We didn’t tally the Victory points but It probably wasn’t enough to keep me from the win. In the end their was little left of my army but the win was in the bag.

Pictures end game:

my objective:

His objective:

Losses Dragon Rider host:

Seer council, 2 guardians Jetbike squads

Losses Black templar:

Half his first unit and his terminators

Lessons learned:
-Black templar are lethal on the assault against my small units due to their rerolls I have to roll insane amounts of saves which in the end kills you.
-Moving 7 “in order to only be hit on 6’s in assault is totally worth it.
-I fail in taking out Landraiders but thanks to speed there is enough room to just ignore them when possible.
-Land raider assault range is very far.
-Jetbikes are nice gunfoder
-Starcannons are still king

Hope you all enjoyed readying the report as much as I enjoyed writing it and playing the battle.

Until next time

Cheers CJ

Army so far!

2009-05-18T21:49:00.006+02:00

Hey bloggers just a couple of pictures of my army so far:

Tournament army:

Seer Council:

As you can see still a whole lot of work yet to be done! Not a whole lot more to ad to this then to just take a look and leave any comments or suggestions you might have.

Cheers CJ

2009-05-18T17:33:00.002+02:00

Hey there blog readers,

had my first ever tournament saturday and It was a lof of fun! got my butt kicked in al 3 games but learned a lot about my army and other armies. In the end I scored 20 points out of a possible 60 battle points which concidering my inexperience with the army was good enough for me. I had some though opponents and my limited knowledge of other armies hurt me a lot. I didn't have time to make notes or take pictures but I'll try to recap some of the battles I had for you to read.

I took the following list:

1 x Farseer (Doom, Fortune, Jetbike and spear)
6 x warlocks (4Destructor, 1 Embolden, Enhance)

2 x 6 Jetbikes (with 2 schurikan cannons)

2 x 2 Vypers (with Starcannons)

10 x Dire avengers (with Bladestrom, Dualcat Exarch)

1 x Wave Serpent(stones, Brightlances)

2 Fire Prisms (1 with stones, both Holofields)

Chaos Space Marines (2-18 Major loss) Annialation

list: Dual Lash Deamon princes, 2 x 8 Beserkers (with PF champion Rhino), 1 x 9 Beserkers (with PF champion, Rhino), 5 lesser eamons, 4 oblits and 2 Vindicators

First opponent was Nico, after the game I came to found out he was the best player in the Netherlands for 3 years running and he had a nasty list to boot. the game was a total bust with me misjudging the power of lash and rhino rush. combine this with a totall bust in shooting which resulted in nothing going down I basicly got my ass handed to me in turn 2 with him charging my Seer council with beserkers and khorn deamons. I lost my Runes of warding in that combat with my seer council falling under a PF weilding Champ (a returning thing in game 3). after that it was a lost game I just couldn't run away far enough for him not to grab me and taking me apart 1 unit at a time. some more mistakes let to a final KP count of 3-7 in favour of the CSM.

Orks (8-12 Minor loss) Take and Control
list: no clue there was a lot. Battle wagon loads of grots, a Ork dreadnought, Boys, commando's, Copters, and a whole lot more.

Bad deployment and objective placing cost me the game with me only contesting his objective while he claimed mine. I totally misjudged the orks power and waited to long getting in for the kill which cost me the game. I noticed I really need to learn how to play the missions properly. Also a total bust on shooting yet again with my ability to get penetrating hits and then only manage to roll ones!

Blood Angels (10-10 draw) Seize Ground
list: Dante, 10 deathguard, 10 Assault marines( PF sarg) , 10 tac (Lascannon), 10 tac (plasma gun and something else), Landraider with 5 Terminators (4 Lighting claws& 1 PF assaultcannon).

Having to take first turn cost me this game. it started promising with my shooting finally doing something. Killing a lot of models with the twin prism S6 ap 3 large blast and starcannon fire. when the smoke cleared 5 Deathguard and 8 tacticale marines lay dead. The following turn i managed to Instant kill Dante with my S9 ap 2 shot when he failed his invunrable save. after that I made some massive errors. I assaulted his assault marines with the council but got stuck and was counter charged by the LR termies which lost me the council over the next 3 turns resulting in 1 free terminator which took a lot of fire before going down. in the end I was only able to hold 1 objective with my DA serpent with the Landraider just tankshocking my Jetbike squa of the objective to contest. This is where not having the last turn hurt me a lot. So I was only able to get a draw from it. which was a bummer since it looked pretty good turn 3 with everything lined up perfectly. but with the game going to turn 7 I just didn't have enough left to take a win.

All in all I had a nice tournament with a heck of a lot of rule mishaps (machine spirit on the blood angel LR was misused) and my stupid attitude (I actually helpt my BA opponent to win) cost me the games and I went home without a win but a lot of knowledge. Things that where apparent:

- Lash of submission is a pain
- Landraiders are though but even rhino's give me a head acke
- BS 3 is a pretty bad even when it's twinlinked
- Fire Prism are very shaky
- Seercouncils can take a lot of beating but my farseer isn't a terminator lord when he is getting his face bashed in with a Power Fist
- I need to Learn!!!! to play good, made a lot of tactical mistakes placing the Objective in game 2 and getting the DA out of the Serpent against the CSM which cost me another Kill point.

so I guess I need to start getting a lot more games under my belt and start making all you guys proud.

Cheers CJ

2009-05-09T20:47:00.003+02:00

Hey guys little update:

made my gravtanks, and assembled my Dire Avengers an finished assembling my Vypers. So this is where the army is at now. things still left to do are finishing the Farseer and his Seer council.

Army now:

Guardians squad 1 Vypers squad 1 :
( still need a Dire Avenger flag for this one )

Guardians squad 2 Vypers squad 2:
( with flag for Squad marking )

Dire Avengers and their Wave Serpent:
( Salvage FW turret still needs cleaning )

Fire Prism 1 with converted turret:

not to sure about the Fire Prism turrets yet but for now they will do for the tournament since I won't have time to fix it. since I only have a week to go and lots to do.

Cheers CJ

Shrieker Jetbikes the Cheap way

2009-04-28T02:33:00.004+02:00

Hello Blog readers,

had some inspiration on how to solve my Shrieker Jetbike Dilemma. I really don't like the off set Shurikan Jetbike model that GW supplies and I think it's way to expensive as well. So I scavenged some Shurikan cannons I had laying around and came up with the following model:

Shuricanon Jetbike:

As you can see it's a pretty straight forward conversion just cut up the canon till you only have the barrel. clip off the hose an replace it with some Iron wire that connects the Gun to the Body. This gives the illusion it's an actual part of the jetbike. Made 4 of these guys so that finishes of that Dilemma.

So what do you guys think?

Cheers CJ

Little Update on the Farseer Bike

2009-04-23T22:20:00.001+02:00

Evening fellowbloggers and readers,

after posting the last update on the Farseer bike I got to work on getting some more work done on it. It was about 3 hours after the update that I thoughed I was done for now. But since my GF took my camera I was forced to wait with taking pictures. So now on my Birthday I was able to get some pictures to Present you guys with What Will most likely be the End result for now.

Farseer Dragon Jetbike:

I hope you all like what I did with it! Now if you don't mind I'm going to get some more Beer

Cheers CJ

First Sculpt Ever

2009-04-19T15:20:00.011+02:00

Hello their loyal following,

after a lot of hours with greenstuff everywhere this is what I did:

The Farseer Dragon Bike:

Yes it's the beginning of the farseer Jetbike, after a stressfull week at the University I wanted to release my creativity around and I decide to poor it over the Farseer jetbike. It is my first ever "Real" sculpt so curious to see what you all think of it. As you can see I tried to get it as close to the Sketch I made when I started this project. I Don't know if I'm going to sculpt the lower jaw. So opinions are apreciated.

Some more pictures :

The Dragon head is born:

The model at the Moment:

Still a lot of work to do but it's getting there.

Cheers CJ

Blog Watch

2009-04-15T17:12:00.004+02:00

Good evening Blog readers today i would like to adress the following. You are missing out on some great warhammer painting and playing. My friend Frozencore decided to join us in the realm of online blogging. His blog is a breeding ground of extreemly good painting and battlereports.

Further more he is developing a great small pts. game system we should all give a try!

So what are you still doing here? go check out Wargamer to the Core

Cheers CJ

Little Jetbike update

2009-04-10T20:07:00.009+02:00

Finished assembling the first jetbikes completely now just to scale all those buggers. I made my Jetbikers using the normal guardian bodies and heads. this wasn't easy since the fit was very poor but I think it's worth it since it looks WAY better in my opinion.

12 Jetbikes:

I made 2 configurations the on on the left is the normal guardian the other on is the one has one of the bigger fins these guys are going to be the shurikan canon wielders.

Configurations:

I still have to assemble a lot of models before my first tournament may 16th I finished making my list and this is what I will be using:

Farseer: Rune Armor, Singing Spear, Ghosthelm, Shuriken Pistol, Runes Of Warding, Spirit Stones, Doom, Fortune, Jet bike = 178

6 Warlocks: Rune Armor, Witchblade, Jetbike, Shuriken Pistol, Embolden, Enhance, 4 Destructor = 330

Troops:

6 Jetbikes: 2 Shuriken Cannons = 152

6 Jetbikes: 2 Shuriken Cannons = 152

10 Dire Avengers: Exarch dual cat bladestorm = 152
1 Wave Serpent: T-Brightlance, Spirit Stones = 145

Fast Attack:

2 Vypers: Star Cannons = 140
2 Vypers: Star Cannons = 140

Heavy Support:

1 Fire Prism: Holofields = 150
1 Fire Prism: Spirit Stones, Holofields = 160

1699 pts.

So still a long way to go before completion. I know I won't be able to finish everything but luckely this isn't a problem for this tournament which is nice since it will give me the opertunity to practise with the army on the bigger games. So I'm looking forward to blasting things into oblivion while flying at full speed!

Cheers CJ

1700 points tournament coming up May 16th

2009-04-07T18:09:00.003+02:00

Hey guys,

after some internal debate about if I could go or not I decided to go to a small dutch tournament. It's a small tournament and should be a nice place to learn how to wield my Saim Hann army. So I made a little army list which contain evertything I think I will be needing over there. It's blatendly stolen frommy friend Fritz over at way of Saim Hann with some minor changes to make it easier for me to build it and get it on the table.

1700 pts. DragonRiderClan

HQ:

Farseer: Rune Armor, Singing Spear, Ghosthelm, Shuriken Pistol, Runes Of Warding, Runes Of Witnessing, Spirit Stones, Doom, Fortune = 188

5 Warlocks: Rune Armor, Witchblade, Jetbike, Shuriken Pistol, Destructor = 275

Troops:

6 Jetbikes: 1 Shuriken Cannons = 142

6 Jetbikes: 1 Shuriken Cannon = 142

10 Dire Avengers: Exarch dual cat bladestorm = 152
1 Wave Serpent: T-Brightlance, Shuriken Cannon, Spirit Stones, Star Engines = 170

Fast Attack:

2 Vypers: Star Cannons, 2 Shuriken Cannons = 160
2 Vypers: Star Cannons, 1 Shuriken Cannons = 150
2 Vypers: Brightlance, 2 Shuriken Cannons = 170

Heavy Support:

1 Fire Prism: Spirit Stones, Star Engines, Holofields, Shuriken Cannon = 185

1698

So what do you guys think? I hope I stand a chance I won't have a lot of practice games under my belt since it's only a month away and I'll be building at to speed just to get all the models assembled for the tournament. all the stuff that's bold is the stuff I don't have yet or stuff I'm borroiwng.

Cheers CJ

Farseer WiP

2009-04-06T17:58:00.005+02:00

Hey guys just got my farseer bits in today along with 4 more High Elf mage kits so basicly I got pretty much all the bits I need to make my seer Counsil. You probably saw my warlock in the previous post and I wanted my farseer to fit in with these guys but till show he is the guy with the Bigger Powers.

Seer Counsil in foursome:

There for I got some dragon mage bits from ebay and started cutting them up and this is where I'm at now as you can see he is now where near finished and he still needs a tun of work. Not to mention the dragon head that needs to be sculpted on his Jetbike. But I just wanted to show you guys and get some early feadback before everything is glued or Greenstuffed into place.

Farseer:

So what do you think so far? does it look dynamic enough and grant enough to be a farseer?

Cheers CJ

Warlock WiP

2009-03-29T22:56:00.009+02:00

Hey guys,

got my first mage kit is in today which I needed for my warlock conversions. It was a lot of work up to the points I am now and it isn't finished yet. I just wanted to let you all take a look and find out what you think of it so far.

Warlock WiP

As you can see I used a Wood Elf spear I had lying around as a which blade. Now I know a lot of people might be getting offended and go but that's no which blade it's a spear well I'm going to be playing it as a whichblade, I probably mix it up with some sword arms as well just to mix up the look of the unit as a whole.

Comments and Suggestions are more then welcome!

Cheers CJ

First battle evaluation.

2009-03-29T22:33:00.004+02:00

500 Pts. Combat patrol

Beside that I also had my 1ste Battle today against another eldar army unfortunatlly no pictures (forgot to grab the camera). which is a same because the Eldar of my friend are beautiful I'll probably get you some pictures of them someday.

as for the battle it was very weird and strange to have so much movement at my dispossel. combined with the sheer fire power of my list it was always a trade of to either move or shoot.

His list consisted of 2 x8 DA with exarch with dual shuri and blade storm and 5 warpspiders with exarch with dualcats, and an exarch with a warppack and fusion gun.

Mine was 2 x 6 Jetbikes with 1 Shuricanon and 3 vypers with shuricanons and scatterlasers.

the game was a Dawn of war deployment and with the objectives. In short the game was pretty hard for me it being my 2 5th ed game and 1ste Saim Hann game. I tried to get the moust out of my shooting but because I wasted a lot of movement getting away from cover to get a Clear LOS I usually had to move more then 6"and couldn't fire the Shuricanons on my vypers. in the End I managed to kill 1 DA unit and his Warpspiders with Autarch unit. I lost 6 Bikes in the proces (damm that 18"shooting from DA is annoying). I still had 2 units of bikes and all my vypers with 2 more turns to go so he called the game in my favour as it was time to get some Food.

Lessons learned:
- learn to eyeball distances better!
- 21 Shots at S6 is nasty!
- Warpspiders are fast, Be Carefull!
- Blade storm is as scary as I thoughed it would be!
- Don't hide to much since it costs a lot of movement to get clear LoS next turn!

overall a very nice first game which left me wondering how I am going to learn all this. It's hard to controll all that speed and balance it with shooting at the same time. All I can say is that I have even more respect for all you Saim Hann players out there. It's a lot harder then it looks

Cheers CJ

all most 500 pts.

2009-03-29T04:01:00.006+02:00

Hey guys little upgrade again,

getting ready for my first game with Saim Hann tomorrow so started some assembly on my vypers and glued the canopies to the bikes. Tomorrow I'll get my small flying bases and more bikes and HE mage kit for my conversions.

all most 500 points:

Guardians ready to become badass bikers:

Hopefully the game goes well and I can finally try these speed daemons. Going to be against Eldar or Space Wolves. Thanks to Fritz I have a nice game plan now I just need to learn to use it!

The List I will be loosing is the following one:

6 Jetbikes with 1 shuriken canon: 142 pts.
6 Jetbikes with 1 shuriken canon: 142 pts.

3 Vypers with Scattterlasers & Shuriken canon: 210 pts.

should be a nice list to work with speed and coversave techniques. Will let you know how it went off course. So stay tuned!

Cheers CJ

It's a Killer swarm

2009-03-26T02:33:00.003+01:00

Hey guys more updates,

after making this blog today I got motivated I guess since I assembled all the Jetbikes I have left laying around. With 8 more coming this weekend I needed to get these out of the way. So here is what's staring at my at the moment. And I have to say it looks scary in so many ways:

Bikes and Sprues finally separated!

Biker gang!

So now I have to grow so more Greenstuff scales. Hopefully a bit cleaner then the First time around. Hope you guys bare with me.

Cheers CJ

My 1K armylist

2009-03-25T19:25:00.003+01:00

Hey guys just wanted to share my 1K list with you. This is the list I will be working towards for the time being. so without further chatter here it is:

1K Siam Hann

Farseer: 160 pts.
Jetbike, Doom, Fortune, stone

Warlock retinue: 275 pts.
5 warlocks, Jetbike, Destructor

Well I just loved the idea of a mounted Seer council so I decided to make on like Fritz over at way of Saim Hann. It's got all the toys it needs for 1K list challenges. Zoom and Boom is the main plan behind this unit, it's survivability is pretty good with Fortune and Doom combined with the Destructor Templates should be a Lot of fun. these guys are the Main shock element in my army.

6 Guardian Jetbikes: 142 pts.
1 schuriken canons

well Here is the Troops section of my army. Cheap and fast, I choose to drop the 2de canon in favour of my 5th warlock. These guys should be speeding across the Field and enjoying there 3+ cover save.

2 Vypers: 120 pts.
2 Scatter Laser

Well these guys are there to haras and kill some Light tanks. they can still move fast at and claim some end game objectives.

Fire Prism: 160 pts.
Holofields, spirit stones

Main anti horde weapon. also pretty survivable and High S shot are nice for shock and awe. Off course nothing is nicer then Hitting his Termies at S9 Ap2 without partials!

Well that's the list I'm working at the moment Suggestions and comments are welcome but nothing to radicale. Hope you guys think I stand a chance.

Cheers CJ

Dragon Jetbike

2009-03-25T17:45:00.008+01:00

Hey there people just completed the first prototype Jetbike for my dragon army

like all things it starts with an Idea and like you might have read in the first post and in the fluff my bikes are modern day dragons. After the First sketches I had to come up with some Paint shemes that would with the style and feel of the Bike. This resulted in going from this:

to this:

As you can see I still used the main Saim Hann colours Black and red. Eventually the rest of the model (read the rider) will also contain some white elements. But for now the bike will be Black and red. After making this decision I started the sculpting on the Bike and after first trying some Patches of greenstuff to work out a technique that looked good and was fast and easy I came up with the following Sculpt:

First Greenstuffed Jetbike

It took longer then expected and was a bit rough, but considering I have very little Greenstuff experience it was a Steap learning curve. But in the end I was pretty happy with it and decided it just needed colour before I could judge then end result. So Yesterday I took a day from school and sat down to paint it. It was a bit of a strugle since it had been a while since I last painted, but in the end the result was pretty decent. And this resulted in this Bike:

First Painted Jetbike

So what do you guys think of this paintscheme and sculpt? even though I'm pretty set on it comments and Suggestions are more then welcome.

Cheers CJ

Tales of the "Dragon Rider Host"

2009-03-25T17:34:00.003+01:00

My First ever fluff story:

“Dragon Riders Host”
There exist in the Eldar mythic cycles a tale known as the Days of Cleansing.
In the ages long ago the Eldar shared their immortal lives with the cosmic dragons. These two life forms had lived in symbyosis for eons. This eventually led to a common bond of immortal being and understanding. But it was not always so.

After an eternity of mutual life the Eldar enjoyed the eternal trust of the dragons. To the Eldar the dragons were like mothers to a young and vital baby, but in the end true communication was impossible. However, the Farseer Aray’eh managed to link his spirit to one of the dragons. The dragon turned out to be on of the most elder of this race, henceforth named Far’oz’arialoth’de’kahe'arinatoc (meaning He Who Was First At The End Of The None) by the eldar. This linking of spirits meant that the Eldar could finally communicate with the dragons and eventually led to an age of true understanding and respect. And after some time the dragons paid the Eldar the ultimate respect: the right to ride on their back.

The linking of spirits that was needed for this communication was a dangerous ritual. This meant the Farseer or warlock had to go into the ethereal lair of the dragon and to live through Cleansing flame. This was the dragons way of knowing if the person in front of her was worthy of her knowledge. The ritual of the cleansing flame was both physical and mental: when the Eldar presented himself to a dragon she would engulf them in flames testing his psychic endurance and bodily stamina. This was not without risk, if the fire deemed the aspirant unworthy he would be burned alive.

This meant that only a small number of eldar would gain this bond. However when linked with a dragons spirit a great many secrets would be revealed to the Eldar. Tales of ages before the eldar existence would be seen in the spirit world with the dragons revealing the source and being of the Eldar.

These days of old would later been known as the Days of Cleansing as they brought about an age of wisdom and understanding.

However the Heavens were brewing with turmoil. The great war between Khaine and the Eldar began and in the coming fall the Dragons fought alongside the Children of Isha and Vaul in an attempt to beat the Bloody Handed One. But the dragons where no match for Khaine and their Cosmic shape was distorted beyond reason and they thrown from this plane of existence.

At the end of the war the eldar where still victorious but at a terrible cost. The had lost their dragons allies for ever. Their homes were burning with the blood of the dragons. Eventually the Eldar where able to rebuild their homes and temples but where forced to life out their days without the guidance of the Dragons.

But they would always honour their fallen Dragon brethren and the lives they gave to keep the eldar race from the brink of destruction. Until this day no one knows what ever happened to the Farseer Aray’eh and his dragon twin Far’oz. It is believed they still roam the skies in the Heavens, for ever keeping a watchful eye on the Dragon Rider Host.

“The Cleansing”
Since it is believed the great war had ended the age of the dragons the initiation ritual of the Host is impossible to carry out. But as a ritual, this was still of great importance to the dragon riders who had taken the Dragon as their symbol. The warlocks of the host, however, had been studying the dragons breath for ages and had found that they could do something similar.
They managed to create a psychic flame that would enter the very spirit of the person that gets hit by it. If the flame would find any corruption or evil thought the person would burn from his spirit to his flesh. For ever marking him as unworthy.

But if the candidate was pure of heart and soul he would emerge from the flames unscathed. After this they would be granted the honour of joining the dragon riders. After his initiation the candidate would be given a new spirit name to symbolise his rebirth from the blaze. This new name and rune now serve to identify him to his kinsmen

“The Dragon Bike”
In of their eternal protectors the Eldar of the Dragon Rider Host use Jetbikes covered in the Scales of the Dragons. These scales are said to protect they eldar when they enter the field of battle. So even in the days still to come the dragons will soar along the skies as they did in ages past.

In further deference the Farseer leader of every generation of the Host Aray’mal assumes the soul name Aray’eh and rides a bike made to resemble the legendary Dragon Lord Far’oz’arialoth.

I hope you guys liked it, and that it got you intrested to stay around.

Cheers CJ

The First Steps

2009-03-25T17:01:00.008+01:00

Hello all of you out there. This is my little blog on my newest and fastest army. After readying the way of Saim hann blog from Fritz I got thinking about starting up a new 40K army. Having played a pretty slow and super resilient army (Necrons) I figured I might aswell go the other way. And so I decided to start a Saim Hann play style army, But with a new look.

After looking around in the codex and reading the existing fluff I figured I could make some for my own style of army. So instead of the standeard fluff story I designed my fluff and army style around the concept of dragons. They seem to have a very mystical look and feel to them which is something I wanted to bring to my Eldar army. So after making some sketches and looking at some colour shemes I came up with the following concept for my Jetbikes.

Farseer Jetbike:
Warlock/Guardian Jetbike:
( my apologies for the sketchy pictures but I like to hand draw my stuff)

This will be the main style in my army and will also find it's way onto my vypers and Fire Prism which are also in my first 1K list. So Keep a look out for some updates soon as I will be sculpting the First Bike soon.

Cheers CJ